Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1950 — Page 2

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Boast Topnotch Record -With Probation Cases

.. Out of 300 Persons Handled *' In Last Year Only 6 Have ‘Gone Back’

“Second of a Series

By BOB BOURNE Nearly every week a 33-year-old man stops in the probation office of the criminal courts. : . He just wants to “say hello.” About two years ago he was hailed into court on a charge of " public indecency. He is a-university graduate and a veteran of four Years Army service, :

f . Bai Judge Willlam B. Ba oy man the men are serving sentences in

revious other states. trouble. So ‘he. ordsred | Myb:'“Of-the four,” Mrs. Raub said,

a . They are no Laurel Raub, probation officer to three are drunks make an i of the 8ood for probation. The fourth

man’s background,

didn't

needs psychiatric ~ treatment Asked Probation which he will not take.” She did, and a few days later At the moment, the two crim- . recommended to the court that jn, courts boast a percentage of the man be placed on probation. g7 34 on the good side of the He reported regularly and was fi- ledger. Other courts can not nally persuaded to undergo psy- 4, go well. . chiatric treatment. : z Since his discharge from proba- Investigations Help tion nearly a vear- ago he has! “They key to our success,” Mrs. been married, and now has a job Raub said, “is in our preliminary as division sales manager of a Investigations. We are allowed firm doing a nation-wide business [0 Investigate a man’s back: and a purported salary of $500 a ground in most cases before we month. take them on probation. The case of the 33-year-old man “We know pretty well what {s the prize among Mrs. Raub's kind of a person we are getting collection. Other cases have not before they come to us.” been sa fortunate, In Indiana it costs taxpayers Even at that eriminal court has $1.25 a day to maintain a prishad phenomenal success with pro- oner in an institution, be it bation cases, county or state, At the same 300 In Last Year time it costs llc a day to main-

: tain an adult on probation, In the last year, 300 PETSONS. Tne net saving, then, is $1.14 were placed on probation. They 4 day per person. In criminal Teported A week a 2 courts this year, taxpayers have enh, orcers, realized a saving of $123,735. Of the 300, only six have “gone

back.” In four cases, probation! TOMORROW — Probation for was revoked. . In two other cases Juveniles.

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a 3ip front hostess robe by Jane Mar.

tin, fashioned of Sanforized® flannel. rayon

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‘underworld.

one is just absolutely no good. He'

Bright-eyed gifts for sleepy-time ‘gals!

Rayon Gowns...a F lannelette Robe /

B. Another Radcliffe gown . . . this one,

+ + + odged with lovely lace. Pink, blue,

on More Stolen,

Other Theft Stopped

, That “television set for Christ-| mas” promotion campaign evi{dently has thoroughly "sold the

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‘new ‘clothes

Added to recent series of TV

Local Corporal Trapped on Battlefield Hele ue g salute dst ndiavaplie un The Times Clothe-A-Child

headquarters. _ It was gleefully given by a poor little girl who Tneived Wash: The ma through Clothe-A-Child because of the, jana factory or pl

t paid 368.50 such The wage statistics were re ported today by the State Em»

| Marine's request to his wife. Mrs. Barbara Quinn, 17 years Fire Destroys

old and bride of six months, took

set thefts, three more were stolen early this morning, and police halted the abduction of three other sets, valued at $1525. LF | Lt. John Foran and his squad, recovered the three sets in the alley behind the General Telejvision Corp., a retail store at 1219 IN. Meridian St. The sets were on the pavement behind a car parked in the alley, but the would-be thieves had fled, | Two Attempts Fruitless | | Leonard Alton, 3345 N. Ewelid Ave, the office manager, said the attempted theft was the fourth fn less than three months. An earlier foray netted three tamts model sets, but the other two attempts were fruitless. Another police checkup was not so timely, Patrolling police found the front door of the Belmont Appliance Store at 2028 W, Michigan jimmied open early this morning, The owner, Forest Mur‘dock of 422 8. Addison Bt. found that three television sets and one radio had been stolen. Value was

Quinn, 23, “Pan asked me

§ | Vermont Pl.

Division,

pretty and warm

one of Clothe-A-Child's yours: Wabash Temple | utfitted

sters to the store and ou her in honor of Marine Cpl. Dan

needed,” Mrs. Quinn said. Quinn is & secretary at the Man ed (jor Tool and Die Works, 62170." , fre department was reported that Hoosier business

With 1st Division ‘Nothing has been heard from wags prought under control at 7

Cpl. Quinn since he apparently m, yesterday. | was trapped with the 1st Marine,

| “When he wrote and asked me which was cut after he was struck {to take a Clothe-A-Child girl to by a nozzle. the store, I know he felt I was L Gil Heo doing a much-needed service for bash epartment, ! : lo |blaze apparently stated in the|2 Young ‘Marksmen’ but no flam i dense smoke until, Turned Over to JAD Two 12-year-old boys were child. made reached the scene. aL ody to Juvenile Aid Division i

{others,” Mrs, Quinn said. So . . . to Marine Cpl. Dan basement, Quinn — wherever you are — a found. in the " great big “thanks” from a poor ~ittle—Indianapolis-

{clothes you wanted her to have.

on the battle-

By ART WRIGHT

an average wage of week.

os Fils Serv} WABASH, Dec. 17 — Firemen {from four cities battled for eight numerous wage in the last hours against’ a fire that de-

Weekly Eamings U bopindhiiiiis Yn dig

man who works in an In.

nks- stroyed the Masonic “Temple here ers. Production workers

Ireinforced by crews from Hunt. was continuing to lington, Peru and Marion. The fire cause of “increased

Reuben Bates, Wabash fireman,

Capt. Gilbert Harris of the Wa-| industry.

lalmost an hour after Semen

by the new

estimated at $900, * Mrs. Barbara Quinn, wife of an Indianapolis Marine, fullfills a A third burglary reported last Marine's request at Times Clothe-A-Child. night netted thieves $30 and a e—— . —"

fifth of liquor at the Traders Post Machinery Worth $6000 Destroyed in Fire

Tavern, 1359 Kentucky Ave. Two f | men living ahave the store were Automotive machinery. valued stroyed a car owned by Pete Mor-|

. iris, Sunshine Gardens, as he was arrested on vagrancy charges for at $6000 was destroyed early to-"'*% % Investigation. |day when a garage burned at the | SHvINg In te Me block of Hardpos - \home of Edward Tichenor, 1622 "8 St. last night. =. SNOWS FALL IN ITALY {Centennial St. RED ‘GOES TO MOSCOW i ROME, Italy, Dec. 18 (UP)—| Fire Company 18, called in. ROME, Dec. 18 (UP)-— Italian! Heavy snowfalls and torrential near-zero weather, was unable to Communist Leader Palmiro To-!| rains swept Italy today, leaving save the 30x17-foot building. 'gliatti was on his way by train {considerable damage in their Cause of the fire was unde- to Moscow today for a rest after jwake. A few flakes of snow fell termined. ‘an operation to remove a blood! {in Rome. { Fire starting in the motor de-iclot on the brain. |

Good Service

TOKYO, Dec. 18 Eleven tons of mail reach Korea daily for United Nations servicemen and five tons leave every day for 16 nations around the world. The servicemen who handle it here, and the civilians who route it around the world, are so proficient that an airmail letter postmarked Johannesburg, South Africa, reached here in four days.

iglass window.

Stolen Property : Charged with receiving a case! {of stolen cigarets |Ky., Mr, and Mrs. Haven were arrested this morning

(UP)—

{ They have been placed in Mar-| {fon County Jail to await arraign-|

to face charges. i

S. Ayres & Co. ‘FRankiin 4411

C. She's strictly a "gown" girl? Ther put) this pretty under her tree! Radcliffe gown of soft rayon, with a squared-off neck of lace . . . the briefest of sleeves. Pink, blue, maize, and. nile

with a deeply plunging neckli ne

and nile included. Sizes 3240.

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CC Pusikinen wortmert ofeslors

Pure Silk Scarfs 7250. | Minjamouded irks Sf fiuswuisht pire sl . vag poly pick-me-up for her wardrobe . . . just as fanciful as she dares or cares to be. From a gala Christmas selection of 1.00 and 1.25 A Pre ih in iid pastel coon. is

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According to the ‘statistics, increases

wrote me—o experis letter he A The |yesterday. Damage was estimated enced a jump in the number of

| givi —that 1 take one of \ a Arid children to at $100,000 to $300,000, a weekly Bours employed, the stores and buy the things she Two adjacent buildings Aaings 1atietse Mrs, by the blaze, but the Since , weekly

has not been deter- earnings have increased $6.89, exact loss The Employment Division also

bee

by the

government and continued cone ‘sumer demand for goods.” ber was reached. The Employs foot his back tober was r ploy» [bad six stitches taken in bis ment Division reported 1,255,000 persons were employed in Hoosier

today by police after an Indiane

: ivin lapolis businessman accused them 2 Held for Rece g lof shooting holes in his $175 plate

Frank M. Cox, 974 Ellenberger in Glasgow, Pkwy. part owner of the Bethard K. Good Paint and Wallpaper Co., 801 N, by | New Jersey St., told the police the | les In his display . | FBI agents at a trailer camp in boys shot ho | the Ake block of W. Washing-| window with a BB air rifle.

ton = SHORT TAKES OVER JOB WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UP)

{ment before the United States —Joseph Short, until recently the Commissioner. {White House reporter for the The FBI said the couple prob- Baltimore Sun, today took ove

ably will be returned to Kentucky as press secretary to President | {| Truman.

‘believed like!

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